Therapeutic fasting according to Marva Ohanian

Marve Vagarshakovna Ohanyan is a naturopathic doctor from Armenia who has dedicated 45 years of her life to medicine. She can be called a living testimony to the benefits of therapeutic fasting, since today Marve Ohanyan is already 83 years old, and she is still cheerful and full of vitality.

Being a practical biochemist and having sufficient knowledge of all biological processes occurring in our body, Marve Oganyan came to the same conclusion as Paul Bragg, namely: raw food is the most useful for the body, but it is difficult to achieve good and quick results, much less cure a disease, by simply changing the diet. On the contrary, a sharp transition from thermally processed food to tougher raw food can cause problems in the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.

The transition to a raw food diet should be preceded by a complete cleansing of the body, and fasting is one of the most accessible and physiologically justified methods. It is fasting that gives the digestive system a rest and allows it to recover so much that it will be able to digest any food.

Marve Oganyan believes that our body is equally harmed by poor ecology, irrational (and often simply harmful) nutrition, and medications that we use to combat various pathologies, including gastrointestinal diseases. But to heal, the patient only needs to thoroughly cleanse his insides of dirt, which means pus, mucus, toxins, slag in the form of sand, stones, etc.

Yes, this is a long process. Depending on the contamination of the body, it may take six months or more for the body to cleanse itself to the point where it is able to fight the disease itself. However, according to Marve, such treatment always gives positive results, unlike traditional methods used in official medicine. In addition, you can count on not a temporary effect, but a long healthy life.

One of Marve Oganyan's theses is that death comes from the intestines, because it is there that all unnecessary things accumulate, which subsequently poison the body and prevent it from effectively fighting various diseases. By washing out all the "dirt" and harmful microflora from the intestines, we give the opportunity for the beneficial microflora to actively multiply. To do this, you just need to feed it, adjusting your nutrition system in such a way that it gives the body all the substances necessary for its vital activity and promotes the natural cleansing of the intestines and the entire body.

So, medicinal cleansing of the body, and in particular the rectum, is the first step to a healthy life and precedes cleansing by fasting. We are talking about cleansing the body by taking a saline laxative (50 g of magnesium sulfate, known as magnesia, dissolved in 150 g of water). For patients with stomach problems, Marve recommends replacing the saline laxative with castor oil (3 tablespoons are enough) or an infusion of a herb called senna. Regardless of the type of laxative, it is immediately washed down with a small amount of herbal infusion in which honey and lemon juice are dissolved. Marve considers such a drink to be a completely reasonable replacement for water, since it does not require further dissolution in the gastrointestinal tract and does not stimulate the production of digestive juices.

After taking the herbal decoction, it is recommended to lie on your right side with a heating pad in the liver area. You need to lie for at least an hour (your head should not be elevated), continuing to drink the honey-lemon herbal drink little by little. You need to drink at least 5 glasses of the drink before 9 p.m., and then go to bed immediately.

In the morning, you will have to work hard to get up early and do a 2-hour bowel cleansing before 7 a.m., but not with a regular enema, but with an Esmarch mug and 2-3 liters of warm water in which salt (1 tbsp.) and soda (1 tsp.) are dissolved. During the specified time, you need to do 2-3 rinses.

In the future, such bowel cleansing will need to be done in the morning every day for 1-1.5 weeks. After bowel cleansing, you can't eat anything except herbal tea, for which various medicinal plants are used. Marva Oganyan's recipe has 14 names: mint, chamomile, oregano, horsetail, yarrow, sage, bay leaf, lemon balm, plantain, violet, coltsfoot, knotweed, bearberry, rose hips. For 3 liters of boiling water, take 1 tbsp. of each of the plants and leave to infuse in a warm place for 20 minutes.

For a glass of chilled herbal drink, you can add 1-2 teaspoons of honey (natural, consisting of fructose and glucose, not fake sugar-containing) and 2-3 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice, which contains organic citric acid and vitamins. If you don’t have lemon juice, you can replace it with berry juice (currant, dogwood, viburnum, pomegranate). You need to drink at least 10 glasses of the drink per day (approximately 1 glass per hour).

Therapeutic fasting on herbs according to Marva Oganyan can be carried out from 7 to 15 days, depending on the patient's condition. If nausea occurs, it is recommended to wash the stomach with water with the addition of soda (for 1.5-2 liters of warm water, take 0.5 teaspoon of soda), and clean the plaque that appears on the tongue daily with a toothbrush.

The appearance of a runny nose and cough with sputum is considered a good symptom, indicating that the body is actively cleansing itself. In this case, you need to fast until the symptoms go away.

After 7 days of therapeutic fasting on herbs, you need to add freshly squeezed juices to your diet: fruit, citrus, vegetable, berry. The most preferable are apple and any vegetable juices (carrot, beetroot, cabbage, tomato, etc.), which can be mixed in different proportions to your taste.

Therapeutic fasting on juices and herbal decoction can be continued for up to 3 weeks, drinking at least 5 glasses of juice and the same number of glasses of herbal drink with honey and lemon per day.

Fasting for more than 7 days does not cancel daily enemas, as the body continues to cleanse itself even when drinking juices. The exit from therapeutic fasting should be gradual. In the first days of the recovery period, you can eat only well-mashed fresh fruits, watermelons and seasonal vegetables without hard fiber (tomatoes, melons, etc.), herbal infusion (2-3 glasses), vegetable and fruit juices. It is recommended to eat 3 meals a day between 11 am and 7 pm with an interval of 4 hours.

Starting from the 5th day, in addition to fruits, you can start eating vegetable salads, gradually adding hot vegetables (onions and garlic), any greens (grate the products). Only sour fruit and berry juices are allowed as dressing.

After 10 days from the start of the recovery period, baked vegetables are gradually added to the diet, seasoned with vegetable oil. After another 20-30 days, vegetable oil (not fried) is added to salads, mixed with raw egg yolk (1 yolk per day).

When 60 days have passed since the end of the fast, it is time to switch to a rational diet, adding porridge to the menu (they are cooked without milk, but it is allowed to add vegetable or butter), soups and borscht. You can add onions to liquid boiled dishes, season them with butter or a spoonful of sour cream, but this should be done after the dish is removed from the stove. It is advisable to exclude yeast bread from the diet, giving preference to homemade bread with soda and vegetable oil.

The course of therapeutic fasting can and should be repeated every 3 months, then once a year, and subsequently once every 2 years. At the same time, Marve Oganyan is against taking any medications during this time. You need to give your body the opportunity to restore its strength, and not rely on the power of drugs that treat not the disease itself, but its symptoms.

According to Marve Oganyan, if a person develops ecological awareness, i.e. does not indulge in his bad habits and eat unhealthy foods, as others do, he will not need a radical cleansing of the body and its treatment for various diseases.